New guy!

There's a new guy in town! He lives at our house now! His name is Buddha!

Mama saw him at the Humane Society's area in PetSmart yesterday. She says he touched her heart. They never bring other dogs home. They're not supposed to, for many reasons! But this just HAPPENED!

He's kinda playful but Mama says I'm too obnoxious and young because I'm all in his face and yipping and barking and throwing my paws on him and he's like, "HEY NOW!" He'll growl a little, but Mama says he's trying to calm me down.

Mama says Buddha will be a good example for me and Joey and Mama and Daddy. He's CALM CALM CALM. Joey says he needs a Dogster diary, STAT! Hm. Might give that job to Mama til we get all cuddly with each other!

Naptime!

I can take 'em!

Mama and I went to the vet today! All by ourselves! Mom said that's what MEN do. I smelled all sorts of new things and I really liked the vet tech! I gave her kisses and nibbled her earlobes!

Mama says she shoulda named me 'Romeo'!

I got my big bad rabies shot and Mama wanted me tested for heartworm. Mama said only big MEN get their neck shaved, but I beg to differ! Do you want me to look like a patchy FOOL? I don't think so!

BTW, I'm 50.4 pounds!

Frankie versus 3 vet techs and Mama out of the room.
Frankie - 3
Vet techs - 0
BOL!
I can take 'em!

I'm so wiggly waggly they couldn't keep up! Hah! Take THAT, intruders of my veins!

Mama says maybe next time. We gotta practice me being calm when THREE PEOPLE ARE RESTRAINING ME AND TRYING TO SHAVE ME AND STICK A SHARP HOLLOW TUBE IN MY VEIN.

Yeah, okay Mom! That's rational!

I'm ready for a nap, that wore me out! One more day of saving the world, done!

I’m a big MAN too!

Me and Daddy, we’re MEN. I like to hang out and play with Daddy because we do MAN STUFF. We even sleep together on the bed, we call our half the ‘Man Corner’. Well, Daddy gets the Man Half, and I get a corner, so it’s my MAN CORNER. Because I’m a MAN.

When I get weighed only Daddy picks me up to do it. That’s because it takes a MAN to pick up a MAN like me! I’m almost 50 pounds, I’ll have to ask Daddy to weigh me on the MAN scale soon to see!

We like to play rough and tumble, I like to outrun everyone with toys! I fetch when I want, because that's what MEN do. I try to look tough and stoic, but then my darn gums start itching again! Darn big boy teeth keep coming in! That also makes me look like a BIG MAN. I have MAN teeth on the top and bottom between my baby canines in my new MAN mouth.

My ears have officially come up! Mama says it doesn’t matter if they do or not, but because they’re up I feel more like a MAN. I have facial expressions of a MAN. I can look serious, concerned, aloof, playful, intrigued, and content. Those are my MAN expressions.

I have MAN feet. They are big! Now that I’m eating chicken necks I feel even MORE like a BIG MAN! Only big MAN dogs get to eat raw chicken necks! I’m a hunter! A MAN hunter!

Daddy is working night shift for a week or so, so I have to go nap in the daytime with him! We’ll be in the MAN CORNER of the bed if you need us!

What's for dinner?

Joey has been telling me about the once upon a time of eating a raw diet. Joey says they stopped eating raw after Ulli got sick and died. The vet originally told Mama her problem was because they ate raw. Well, that was WRONG.

Still. Mama felt like we weren't getting the veggies we needed. So we went to U.S.A. all made doggie food.

Guess what? Last night Mama put CHICKEN NECKS in with our food! Oh! I felt like a REAL DOG! YUM YUM YUM YUM! Joey wiggled her eyebrows at me when they were thawing. She was happy, she said this same dog food stuff was kinda bland and boring compared to raw!

Mama says we had a bunch frozen and it didn't kill Ulli. Ulli & Joey ate raw for 3 years without a problem. Ulli had other problems.

Tonight we got a more chicken necks on our food and I ate them up and said, "ALL DONE!" Kibble and canned, schmibble and lambed! Raw food is GOOD!

Can we have more? What if we go on a hunger strike? We're purists! Only raw! Only raw! Only raw! That's a good chant!

Mama giggled at us. She said she's pretty easy to train, so she might give us one raw meal a day. YIPPEE!!!!

All I want for Christmas is a full set of teeth....

OMD I have been teething SO MUCH!!!! Daddy says I've lost 4 teeth in 4 days! My mouth and snoot and jaw has been growing, and my baby teeth have been looking mighty small!

Now I have big boy teeth on the center top and bottom! Well, two on the top and two on the bottom. Daddy noticed so much because I was bleeding all over! Blood on my toys and on Joey's cheek!

Mama had been giving me extra ice to soothe my teething pain! Poor Frankie!

Water, people, dogs, oh my!

We drove furever this morning, and went the the EDGE of the world!!! There’s water there! Mama and Daddy said it was the ‘beach’. A big long dog beach! The water was very busy, splashing around and back and forth. Boy did it taste salty!

I was sure to meet and greet everyone I could! People, dogs, whatever! I met tiny dogs and HUGE dogs, they were all nice for the most part! What fun!

I had to be coaxed to run in the water, but I did! All four of us splashed together!

When we got tired we sat under our umbrella. I did the family a favor and dug a hole to the cooler part of the sand!

Boy was I tired! But can we do it again? Like, soon? Really soon? How soon? BOL!

A big adventure day!

We drove in the car for a long while. Daddy counted, I threw up ELEVEN times. Joey wasn’t too pleased with my throw-up on her feet. Poor me!!! (I heard Mama tell Daddy, "I TOLD you we shouldn't feed them first!") BOL!!!

We got to our destination and hiked around a bit. It was nice! New smells, I walked on my first bridge over water, AND I actually SWAM in a lake! It was INCREDIBLE! Daddy was with me the whole time, Mama made sure of it!

I even fetched a stick in the water! I didn’t swim for it, Mama said I wasn’t ready for that yet, but it was super fun!

I slept ALL the way home! I am exhausted! Early bedtime for me!

ACK ACK ACK! What are you DOING?!?!

OMD! I think my Mama is tryin’ to KILL ME! No, REALLY! After dinner every night she gives me a treat (buttering me up!!!), then she FORCES my mouth open and sticks her FINGERS WAAAAAY in the back, tryin’ to choke me! WTD, Mama?

I try and try and try to keep my jaws closed, but I’m no match for Mama. When she opens my mouth I’m afraid and I cry like a little puppy! I’m just a baby! Don’t hurt the baby!

As soon as it starts, it’s over. Then she gives me another treat. What is that, an “I’m sorry” treat? I wanted to kill you but changed my mind after I started? And for some reason it’s always after dinner!

Mama does it to Joey first, but Joey doesn’t mind. She must like Mama’s fingers in the back of her throat. ICK! I’m sensitive! I’m GROWING and DELICATE! For goodness sake. I don’t know why this is happening, but I sure hope it stops soon!

Tagged! What fun!!!

I got tagged! I don’t think I’ve ever been tagged before...

1. Do you ever wake your parents up in the night?

Yep! I am still a puppy, only 14 weeks old now, so I usually wake Mom or Dad up one time in the middle of the night so I can go outside and tinkle.

2. Do you ever tear up things?

Yes!!! It’s my new favorite pastime!! BOL! I love to grab stuff and RUN like the wind, shaking my head and making it rattle! I like paper and shoes and books and knocking over glasses of water… Mom and Dad’s clothes… anything I can get my teeth on!! I am also thinking about studying botany, I LOVE pulling up plants and weeds and inspecting them!!! I also love toilet paper, trash, plastic… yum yum! Mama says she shoulda named me Magellan because I’m such an explorer!

3. What is your favorite treat?

Ummm, these yummy logs of meaty stuff Mama gets from PetCo. Natural Balance tubes. They look like sausage in plastic. Mama cuts them up into treats and they are SOOO good! When she brings them out I get all distracted!

4. Can you fetch something when asked?

Only if I want to! Sometimes I’ll play fetch with Mama or Daddy in the back yard or the house, but I gotta be in the mood for it!

5. Have you ever lived any place but where you live now?

Kinda. I lived at my birthplace, in Knoxville Tennessee for 6-7 weeks before I got on a big airplane with Mama and flew to California! I am in my forever home now! They say we're gonna be moving before too long, but don't worry, I'm goin' with them!

That was fun!! I am off to tag.

Sick! In the nick of time!

I'm a little sick! I went to the vet Thursday for my 3rd puppy visit and they couldn't find my stool labs from the visit 3 weeks before! They called the lab and I had this coccyx thing, coccidiosis? Ma says it's a real weird word.

That was 3 weeks ago! They wanted a fresh sample. Mama got them one and took it on Friday. That coccyx stuff is gone, but NOW I have giardia!!! Mama blames my kiddie pool. She has closed it. It's for 'day use only'. She also blames the puddles here in the mornings and evenings when we walk. No more drinking from those!

My poopie had been fine! As soon as Mom and Dad found out I (and Joey, of course, because we do EVERYTHING together!) had giardia I started getting the squirts! Joey too!

We both went liquid poo-poo right on cue, after diagnosis! Mama thinks this is weird. She wonders if we knew we got the diagnosis. No matter! We're medicated now and still doing well! BOL!